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My rating didn't change after winning and gaining points

I accidentally started two games at once, and I won both of them,

In the game that ended first, I gained 43 points,
In the other game I gained 21 points.




After the second game, I checked my rating and I only gained 43 points, which means I didn't get the rating for the second win (21 points)

Dear Lichess Staff, Please fix my rating (+21 points)
It looks correct to me. After the last (rapid) game before these two, you had 2329 (2302 + 27) which is what both games show as the rating before the game. And next (rapid) game after these two (which you lost) shows "2393 -23" where 2393 = 2329 + 21 + 43. Now you have 2370 = 2393 - 23 = 2329 + 21 + 43 - 23. Everything is as it should be.

What is often confusing is that the game display (both when reviewing and when looking in the game list) shows the rating at the moment the game started and the difference you gained or lost in it. When games are not sequential, the sum (or difference) may not be equal to what is shown as the rating at the beginning of next game - but that is actually correct. This confusion is most frequent with correspondence rating as there the games overlap much more often than in normal time controls.